To these two courts, (of which only, and not of more, the Scripture
makes mention,) a third was added in after ages, namely, in the temple of Herod; with another wall built in the circumference
of the temple, which was called that
of the Gentiles and unclean persons; but this was not accounted sacred, nay more,
on the columns erected, there was inscribed in Greek and Latin letters, “Let no
stranger of another tribe pass through into the holy place.” Josephus de Bello Judaico,
1-6. cvi. Greek 18.